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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Don’t forget TED.com!

…good advice from English4University. I thought of Mata when I saw it, but TED.com is not just for university students or advanced learners. This post also reminded me to post more about studying at university and for standardized tests. Are you preparing for university and IELTS or TOEFL exams?

Don’t forget TED.com for practising your English. This is a truly wonderful site. If you are preparing for an examination with a listening component – like IELTS for instance – then you should be doing lots of listening practice. I would strongly recommend looking at TED and browsing through the list of topics.

You can use the search facility to find something that you are interested in. Then just listen. If you have problems you can use subtitles in any of about 45 languages. There is an interactive transcript so you can read the transcript and play the video from any point that you choose. The cost of this? It’s free!

If you haven’t seen TED before then why not start by listening to Jay Walker giving a presentation about English learning? It’s here.